By Perry Green, AFRO Sports Editor Buffalo Wild Wings tweeted out an apology on the night of June 1 after someone allegedly hijacked its Twitter account and posted several racist tweets. The series of tweets were posted at approximately 7:30 p.m. on June 1 and remained on Twitter for nearly 20 minutes before being deleted. Multiple tweets included the use […]
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15-Year-Old Graduates College, Looks to Next Challenge
By Sean Yoes, Baltimore AFRO Editor, syoes@afro.com Torrington Ford, 15, who was homeschooled by his mother Tarita, says he constantly asked her to push him as a student. “I would always tell my mom, mom I want a challenge, challenge me more,” Ford told reporter Danielle Ohl of the Capitial Gazette. “Which was offensive to me,” Ford’s […]
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Sylvester Stallone Making Biopic about Boxer Jack Johnson
The Associated Press Days after the presidential pardon of Jack Johnson, Sylvester Stallone has announced plans for a biopic on the first African-American heavyweight champion. Stallone said May 30 that his newly launched Balboa Productions will start with a film about Johnson. The following day, Stallone stood next to President Donald Trump in the Oval […]
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Missouri Report: Blacks 85 Percent More Likely to Be Stopped
The Associated Press Nearly four years after protests in Ferguson raised concerns about racial profiling of blacks in Missouri, a report from the state attorney general shows that African-American drivers are 85 percent more likely to be pulled over than Whites — the highest level in the 18 years the state has compiled data. (Stock […]
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Black Man Wearing MAGA Hat Hit with Hate Crime Charge
By Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com In today’s Donald Trump lover news, a Black man with a “Make America Great Again” hat and shirt was charged with a hate crime after allegedly getting into an altercation with two men, one being a Hispanic immigrant who he pushed onto subway tracks in New York City. According […]
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At Least 4,645 Died After Hurricane Maria. Not 64.
By The Associated Press A new study contends that many more deaths than normal occurred in Puerto Rico in the three months after Hurricane Maria devastated the island, mostly because of problems getting medicines or medical care. Researchers surveyed a small sample of neighborhoods and from that estimated that up to 4,600 more deaths than […]
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14-Year-Old Gets College Degree and High School Diploma in One Day
Micha Green, AFRO Washington, D.C. Editor, mgreen@afro.com Usually teens graduate from high school and, if fortunate enough to follow their collegiate dreams, years later they get the honor of walking across the stage to receive a degree. Yet, for 14-year-old, homeschool student, Matthew McKenzie, his graduation order was anything but conventional. “We like to do things differently […]
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Kim Kardashian West Goes to the White House to Talk Pardon
By The Associated Press Reality TV star Kim Kardashian West went to the White House Wednesday to make a star-powered case for prison reform and advocate on behalf of a great-grandmother serving a life sentence. Kardashian West has urged the president to pardon Alice Marie Johnson, 63, who is serving a life sentence without parole […]
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Serena Williams Launches Fashion Collection of Her Own
By The Associated Press Serena Williams has launched a fashion collection soon after participating in her first major tennis tournament in 16 months, dressed in a black “warrior princess” catsuit, no less. But don’t look for her French Open outfit among the athleisure, office and evening clothes on her new namesake website , the only […]
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Former AFRO Reporter, William C. Rhoden, Among Those Inducted into Hall of Fame
By J. K. Schmid, Special to the AFRO A former AFRO reporter was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Hall of Fame May 25. William “Bill” Rhoden, journalist, columnist and author, is a Morgan State alumnus, whose career spans publications from the AFRO to the Baltimore Sun to Ebony Magazine to the New […]
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Starbucks Halts Brewing so its Employees Can Talk About Race
By The Associated Press Starbucks, mocked three years ago for suggesting employees discuss racial issues with customers, asked workers to talk about race with each other. It was part of the coffee chain’s anti-bias training Tuesday, created after the arrest of two black men in a Philadelphia Starbucks six weeks ago. The chain apologized but […]
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NAACP Joins Black Motorcyclists in Suing Myrtle Beach for Discrimination
By Perry Green, AFRO Sports Editor, pgreen@afro.com A group of Black motorcyclists teamed up with the NAACP to file a lawsuit against the city of Myrtle Beach, S.C., as well as its local police department, for alleged racial discrimination shown towards those who participate in Black Bike Week. According to the NAACP, the complaint alleges that there are […]